by Anonymous | 17th Nov 2020 | Humanity, Patient Stories
When my husband was called up urgently in the evening by a consultant haematologist to come into the acute assessment unit at the local hospital, on the same day as he had had a routine blood test at the GP practice, this was never going to be ‘normal’. My husband...
by Anonymous | 12th Feb 2019 | Clinician Stories
It was back in 1994, when I was doing my medical house job, that I met Peter. Peter was a man in his late sixties and he suffered with COAD… that’s what we called COPD back then! When I say he suffered with it I mean he really suffered. He’d got to the stage where he...
by Anonymous | 5th Feb 2019 | Patient Stories
Being ‘on the other side’ is the most valuable medical educational experience I have ever had that can never be taught in the classroom. Having been fit and well all my life, when I started getting swollen ankles at only 19 years old I didn’t...
